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What are you using?

Let’s see some pics.

Phone scope/Meopta S2. The Phone Scope got bounced off a rock, wasn’t impressed.



Meopta S2/Novagrade. Like it, but it’s bulky and heavy.



Kowa 77/Magview. Really liking the Magview.

Great pics! That S2 is hard to beat. This is through a 65mm Athlon Ares UHD.....


Cropped S2 pic.....



S2......

The S2 is a great scope. I settled on the Kowa for the dual focus. Feels like I can get a little better focus when digiscoping.

That mountain lion pic is badass. NM?

Thanks. Yes, NM.

Unfortunately, due to operator error it lived to see another day.

Ha! I've never seen one alive. Sure would like to.

Watched the tail end of the lion getting this fawn.

I wish I got into this years ago. I have quite a few pics by just holding my camera/phone up to my spotter's lens but wish I had the right equipment like the MagView earlier.

I may drag my spotter along tomorrow checking traps and get some shots if I see any caribou or anything else worthy.

Me too. Would really like to have some pics of stuff from years before I started playing around with it.

can't find my elk pics so heres one of the windfarm across the hiway

That’s a neat pic hunts’. Swaro?

Nice deer.

A cropped hold the phone up to the spotter. That was actually 15’s, not a spotter.

What do you like about the Magview vs. a phoneskope? I don't really have any complaints about the Phoneskope but I've never used or seen the magview in the field so I don't know, what I don't know.

Thanks in advance for a compare/contrast.

There wasn’t much I liked about the Phonescope, this was 4/5 years ago so maybe things have changed/gotten better? I could not keep the phone flat in landscape, it would always slowly slide down towards portrait. I called Phoneskope and asked them about it and they suggested a couple wraps of electric tape on the ocular. The ocular cap then was a pain to get on and off. This was on a Meopta S2.

I always had to wiggle the phone/adapter to get the picture centered, but would lose it once the phone started sliding towards portrait and would have to start all over.

I also didn’t like having to either put the adapter on the phone every time I wanted to use it, or carry the phone in the pack cause it wouldn’t fit in my pocket all put together.

The Nova Grade worked really well, but was big and bulky. With the Novagrade, I’d have to put whatever I was looking at towards the top of the image before putting on the Novagrade cause the spotter would always settle once I got it put on no matter how hard I locked down the VA5. The plus is, you don't have to have a special phone case and it’s super easy to adjust if someone else uses it with a different phone or case.

The MagView for me is the best I’ve used so far. No special phone case, if you get a new phone or case, you just replace the glue on plate to the back. With the MagView app, there is a grid with a small dot that you center over the view, and the magnet on the eyepiece pulls it into place. After a few times, it’s super easy to line up. It’s also real easy to adjust if you’re off a bit. I don’t have to re adjust the spotter very often after putting the phone on it. The adapter that stays on the scope acts as a great lens cover, but it does make it less comfortable to use without the phone.

Would be interested to hear others opinions on what they are using.

Very cool guys!

Maybe now that I’m not buying any more guns (honest Honey!), I should invest in a spotter and do this stuff.

Thanks for the review.

Thanks SLM

I had the same problems with the old phonescope and haven’t bought anything since. I’ve been holding the phone to the eyepiece and snapping pics, which basically sucks

The Mag view seems like a quantum leap forward

I’m bored on zoom meetings. There’s 3 bulls in the pic.

I've got a novagrade a hunter gave me. I've never used it. phonescope is easier. Maybe I'll get it out and play with it......

Usually through my 15s handheld with a dirty ass phone. And usually I have to delete stuff to make room for the pics I want to take. I need to get my schidt together.

Some of my faves of different critters.

Not tried it personally but know a couple folks that started that way. They have since gone professional and in so doing went to good camera gear. Most scopes have optically poor glass resulting in some color separation, do not let in enough light, and have a very shallow depth of field making it hard to really nail focus.

About 650yds (Google earth measure) out with Cookie's Canon 500 mm lens and a Canon EOS 70D body. She's picked up a couple better bodies since.


This was a real stretch. Just short of 800 yds with the same gear. Bull had just been in a fight and broken his left antler.


Both have been cropped to remove a ton of extraneous background. While the digi-scopes do document one's sightings, publication quality is a pretty rare event.

One can now pick up a prime Canon 800mm f11 lense for about $800. A Canon 200 to 800mm zoom is right at $2 grand. About what one might pay today for a better scope.

Good stuff NM’. The porn is a nice touch.

1minute, good pics. I don’t see me ever going with photography equipment, just fun taking pics of stuff.

NM....awesome stuff my man!

I plan to get more serious with the MagView this summer.

Most of these are probably repeats, but here goes:
Freehanding it:

Thanks gentlemen! It would be awesome if the quality was better but it would be tough packing a camera and binos and a spotter. I’ll be set up with one of the magnetic adapters next year.

A few more. I have lots and lots of these kinds of pics but nothing real close up like I’d like, and like what has been shown thus far on this thread by others.






I plan to get better this summer.
Great pics everyone!

Badasss Tinman. Thanks! NMpistolero, what magnetic adaptor are you talking about? My Phoneskope bit the dirt.

That’s an awesome pic Tiny.

The sheep are pretty neat as well.

A NM dall. Guessing she’s old?

A New Mexico ‘dall’? Looks like a knocked up ewe to me, or one with a huge tumor or something…

What is a NM dall? Just a white(ish) colored desert or Rocky?

Ya, sarcasm. Never seen a desert that light.

Ahhh, I see. It’s been a long day. Give me a break.

I do know Texas has ’Dahl’ sheep which are some sort of domestic/wild hybrid, I think. I assume they’ve spread out towards NM at some point.

A few more as I wait for my Prime Rib…

[quote=T_Inman]A few more. I have lots and lots of these kinds of pics but nothing real close up like I’d like, and like what has been shown thus far on this thread by others.

My pictures aren’t close just heavily zoomed and cropped. A lot of times I take video and then take screenshots.

JG- I think both the Ollin and the magview are nice but in especially like the way the Ollin just snaps into place. I do like magview scope covers though.

One tip I picked up is to either use the timer or to use the old style of earbuds as remote to avoid shake from touching the phone.

Those "Texss Dall" sheep are not free ranging..They are privately owned animals classified as livestock under state law and are kept behind high fences..

I doubt there will be sny "migration" of them to NM unless it is via a StockTrailer..

If that’s in your unit I think it maybe a gene. I found this ram and he’s super light too

The timer makes a big difference IMO.

Been screenshotting some videos as well.

Keep the pics coming.

Ya, I could tell some were zoomed in and cropped, but they’re still ‘close’ and look really good.

I have a simple remote with a single button that bluetooths to my phone. I use it when taking pics of myself and my critters since I hunt almost exclusively alone. It is way better than using the self timer. I suspect it would be awesome in the Digiscoping to avoid the shake caused by touching the phone.

Saw one from a distance a few years ago that was pretty light, but that’s the first one I got a good look at. She was South of the highway.

I thought some were feral, or at least were exotics? Are other exotics classified as livestock in Texas?
I have zero clue. I have never seen one or been around anything like that.

Edited, from Google:
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Sounds like there is some sort of Dahl in NM.
I dunno……

Anyhoo, back on topic:

I killed this bull later that morning. Terrible pic but it is what it is.

Another bad pic, zoomed WAY in of an 11 year old ram, which I killed 6 days later.

couple more cropped ones.......

These things are about $10 or less and Bluetooth to your phone so you can just hit the button and get an instant picture instead of waiting the 2 or 10 seconds or whatever the setting is on the self timer.

Makes it nice for animals that are moving.

I got an adapter for my Zeiss Diascope so you can use a real camera instead of a smart phone camera.

It really helps when zooming in to take photos as you are optically zooming and not digital zooming. The clarity and pixelation is so much better.

Here’s a few whitetail from 250-350 yards, Swaro STC with Ollin adapter and iPhone 14.

Good stuff everyone.

Going to have to try one of the bluetooth triggers.

Doesn’t get any better than sheep, big bulls and sand hill bucks!

I’ll dig up some more!

Longest oryx I’ve seen.

Zeiss spotter

Spring ducks, don't see all these cool ones in fall

Nice pic. Are you using an adapter?

Boom bitches……




Spot the cocks

Good stuff TinyCOCK.

I see 2, birds.

Usually. That was probably with a cheap S4 universal one. New phone didn't fit so now I have a Novagrade.

Unique 40”+ cow I passed because as I was leaving the house my wife kissed me and whispered don’t kill one bigger than mine, she’d killed a 38” cow a month earlier. Mind f’ed me pretty good.

Laffin’, the power of women.

Bugling from his bed.

Up and comer we called turkey track.

You're a better man than me pistolero........I really need to kill a NM oryx. Love hunting them, and absolutely love eating them.

These photos don’t mean much unless the distance is noted.

This bull was fast asleep

Taken through a Leupold 12-40x spotter on less than max power at 1200 yards

3 miles at 35x





2 miles at 35x

I don't have a damn clue as to the distance and really don't care. I wasn't hunting these particular critters...





Usually....as I did get a 5x5 out of this group at first light the next morning.

And here, I guess. I killed the lower buck here, 2 days later. One of my biggest mule deer ever.


Tahr in NZ, while after stag.


Dove hunting, Southern Idaho style.

Cropped. I may have shown the original version earlier in this thread. Can't remember and don't feel like going back to check. I never could find this buck again.


There's a sentry SnowCOCK standing watch in this pic, you can kind of see on a rock slightly lower and right from center, silhouetted against the snow. I never got a shot off...


I don't recall if this was through an optic or not. Another buck I never saw again, despite my best attempts.

I was watching this herd as a friend had a super rare tag for the area. I couldn't figure out why they were so spooked. A couple wolves suddenly appeared in the bottom but I never could get a pic.


Idaho buck I saw again in the season but couldn't get killed. Smart suckers...


More Idaho elk but not in an open area.

More scouting in Idaho.




Wyoming rag bull I passed up at (IIIRC) 520 yards.



Spike bull in a 'spikes excluded' zone, not that I would have shot him anyway. I could have hit him with a rock though.

Public land buck at less than 500 yards in general hunt area, a few days after the season closed. No biggie as I killed a good buck a week beforehand.


Two days earlier in the same drainage, but a lot further out.


Young Talkeetna bull I passed on.

Good stuff, the tahr and goat are awesome.

Keep them coming.

Yet another public land, general season buck I never could relocate during the season. I have a bad habit of that.


I don't know if this guy was Biden level dumb or what but he had no clue I was there, in the open and wasn't but 50 yards away.


2 legal rams in the Archery only Dalton Highway Corridor. To say I never had a chance is an understatement. It isn't like these were bar whores or anything...

Reupold always makes it fun! Hint.




Reticle rolled,on the 2nd trip to The Fix It Factory. Hint.

3rd puke. Hint.




Fhuqking Reupold "fixed" my erector. Hint.



Fhuqking LAUGHING!.............

This one hurt, as I crossed a glacial river in my underwear and sat in the pissing rain for two hours, trying to relocate him. He never showed back up.

Hint........

This was freehand. Usually use a phoneskope

Kowa 774 w/ Samsung s23 at about 3 miles

The yardage and power, cropped or not, matter to me to evaluate which systems work the best.

So far I’m interested in the Mag View

Another freehand through the kowa

Phoneskope, iPhone 13, Swarovski ATX 95, Antelope at 1000 yards…

Well for what it is worth, mine are all generally between 30X and 40X, at a variety of distances and all hand held. I got a MagView now and plan to put it to use this spring and summer.

Anyhoo.....

One of these two toms died at first light the next morning.


Mountain goat, in the center about 1/2 mile away.

Mix of Meopta S1 and Leupold GR - all freehand.

Elk, moose & sheep are RMNP in CO.

Fuzzy whitetail is a MT double main beamed monster that haunts my dreams. He got away and the crappy pic was all I have besides memories.

I bought SLM’s S2 and will obtain a magview and get more serious about it this fall.

A couple more.

The whitetail is from ND and thought he was hidden in amongst some tall weeds and old feed bunks. Pleaded with my FIL to shoot as I didn’t have a tag.. He passed him up 2x in one day!

The mulie is from MT and is mostly for reference. He was young in this pic. I had the chance to shoot him 4 years later. He was probably 33” wide at that point but age hadn’t given him much gains in mass or forks. Still the largest bodied mule deer I’ve ever seen by a lot! I didn’t pull the trigger as
I’d seen the non-typical whitetail from the previous afternoon and was holding out for him. Found him 3 days later and he gave me the slip again as
old bucks tend to do.

These are just holding the iPhone up to a pair of Swarovski EL 8X32 binoculars…

Still looking for my first fence,you "lucky" kchunt. Hint.............

Good stuff.

That is one EPIC shot.

Top one was through 10x binos at 150 yards

Bottom one was through a spotting scope about 250 yards